Recording output questions

I think what you may be wanting is to create a Captivate screencast session, publish it as an SWF and then add that SWF to another Captivate project as an animation on a particular slide.

I don't particularly like this method of doing things because it means when I want to change something in the animation I have to go back to the other screencast project, make changes, publish, reimport/update the second project.  To much double handling. Plus, if I'm using voiceover audio to describe the screencast, there's a chance the audio will be getting compressed twice and not end up being matching quality.

Hello,

I'm confused by your question, but suppose that it is due to terminology.

By 'actual video' I suppose that expect to have a video as a result, as is the case with screen capturing applications like Camtasia, Jing, Screenr....

Captivate has another approach, if you use the Automatic Recording mode. It will create static screenshots, and only switch to recording like a video when necessary such as for drag-and-drop or mouse wheel actions. But each static slide has a timeline, objects can appear at different moments on that timeline, you can add objects like arrows, text captions etc on different moments on that timeline. When the file will be published perhaps to SWF (most common publishing option) it will play like a video, but this approach allows interactivity by the user: he can click, type in text, choose menu options etc. This is not possible if you capture something like a video does. But if you want a video, without interactivity, you could choose to capture in Full Motion Recording mode; I really do not recommend that because the filesize will be a lot bigger and you will have much less editing possibilities.

Lilybiri